The Nile is a river in Africa and Egypt. |
They SHOULD tighten standards. I hate Youngkin and I think his policies are awful, but our children deserve a better education. |
He may if he's interested in ACPS at all. I would bet there are both poor and UMC parents interested in charter schools rather than the low ranked publics. Gives a nice escape mechanism for the parents and students ignored by Alexandria government. |
This post is hilarious in regards to ACPS. Jefferson Houston was literally the lowest performing school *in the entire state* .
What did the Ds do to 'improve it? They redistricted the boundaries to flood it with wealthy white kids to boost scores and give the appearance of high performing and they lowered the metrics for accreditation. Who would willfully send their kid to a school like that? |
Ah, this old chestnut. There’s no evidence—credible evidence, that is, not written by pro-charter orgs— that charter schools improve much of anything except the pockets of the orgs running the charter schools. |
You don’t get it. No one is arguing against better standards in itself. The problem is when schools don’t meet them, it impacts funding which makes the issue worse. And then charters and vouchers come in to save the day! He wants to undermine public education. He could give two poops about poor kids’ education. |
This should have nothing to do with Youngkin or politics - ACPS is incapable of educating children, but would rather focus on Equity for All. Every person in this community should demand so much more for the $350 million it spends every year. The PP is correct about data and charter schools for the most part, but the few studies on where they are successful would lend to them being a possible solution in Alexandria, as ACPS cannot, despite funding, educate underprivileged and minority students. Charter schools could give that population a chance. |
Neither do you. |
Exactly. Defunding schools is the death knell to public schools. |
Great, then explain it. |
Explain that you don’t give two poops about poor kids’ education? You explain that. |
Troll. Youngkin is MAGA trash trying to hurt our schools. |
Can they get worse? Serious question? What is ACPS as a larger organization doing well? (Most of the teachers and school staff are fantastic). Look at the top down grading policy they just tried to implement. Maybe if there was more scrutiny there wouldn’t be 25 admini assistants working at central office, with the superintendent’s admin assistant make $96k a year. |
If het gets the gangs and blacks to stop stabbing and shooting kids I don't care. |
You’re trash trying to hurt everyone. |